Hynek PikhartDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UKBMC Public Health 3:38. 2003

..In the present analyses, we examined the importance for health of material factors, which may have a direct effect on health, and of those that may affect health indirectly, through psychosocial mechanisms...

Pregnancy outcomes and outdoor air pollution: an ecological study in districts of the Czech Republic 1986-8

M BobakDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UKOccup Environ Med 56:539-43. 1999

..The association between outdoor air pollution and stillbirths and low birthweight in the Czech Republic, where air pollution was high, was examined...

Contribution of drinking patterns to differences in rates of alcohol related problems between three urban populations

M BobakInternational Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, UKJ Epidemiol Community Health 58:238-42. 2004

M BobakInternational Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UKSoc Sci Med 51:1343-50. 2000

..Perceived control appeared statistically to mediate some of the effects of material deprivation. The non-significant effects of both ecological measures of inequality were eliminated by controlling for individuals' characteristics...

Alcohol consumption in a national sample of the Russian population

M BobakInternational Centre for Health and Society, University College London, UKAddiction 94:857-66. 1999

..We have analysed the levels and distribution of alcohol consumption in a national sample of the Russian population...

Outdoor air pollution, low birth weight, and prematurity

M BobakInternational Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, London, United KingdomEnviron Health Perspect 108:173-6. 2000

..Low gestational age accounted for the association between SO(2) and low birth weight. These findings provide further support for the hypothesis that air pollution can affect the outcome of pregnancy...

Psychosocial work characteristics and self rated health in four post-communist countries

H PikhartInternational Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UKJ Epidemiol Community Health 55:624-30. 2001

..To examine whether psychosocial factors at work are related to self rated health in post-communist countries...

The association between psychosocial characteristics at work and problem drinking: a cross-sectional study of men in three Eastern European urban populations

M BobakInternational Centre for Health and Society, Department of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, UKOccup Environ Med 62:546-50. 2005

..Psychosocial factors at work are thought to influence health partly through health behaviours...

Changes in smoking prevalence in Russia, 1996-2004

M BobakUCL International Institute for Society and Health, University College London, London, UKTob Control 15:131-5. 2006

..Changes in the prevalence of smoking in Russia between 1996 and 2004, and whether theses changes differed by sociodemographic groups, were investigated...

Outdoor sulphur dioxide and respiratory symptoms in Czech and Polish school children: a small-area study (SAVIAH). Small-Area Variation in Air Pollution and Health

E WebbDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1 19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BT, UKJ Epidemiol Community Health 62:351-7. 2008

..This study will determine whether similar associations are observable in settings with different social histories, and will assess whether adult leg length is more strongly associated than adult height...

Air pollution and birth weight in Britain in 1946

M BobakDepartment of Epidemiology and Public Health, University College London, 1-19 Torrington Place, London WC1E 6BTEpidemiology 12:358-9. 2001

..While confounding by unmeasured factors cannot be ruled out, these historical data support the hypothesis that birth weight could be affected by air pollution...